Ross Turner, the former ICC global development manager, will be the BCB's consultant to formulate its long-term strategic plan from 2015, reports Cricinfo. He is expected to arrive in Bangladesh next month to complete formalities for a role that will...
MELBOURNE, Dec 25 (AFP): Debutant Joe Burns will bat at number six and paceman Ryan Harris returns for Australia in the third Boxing Day Test against India, skipper Steve Smith said Thursday. Smith, who won his first Test as captain...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Dec 25 (AFP): New Zealand and Sri Lanka are expecting a paceman's paradise when their two-Test series starts in Christchurch Friday. Aside from the prestige of a Test match, the first in eight years in the earthquake-ravaged...
MELBOURNE, Dec 25 (AFP): Captain M.S. Dhoni said Thursday sledging had nothing to do with India's losing performance in the series against Australia and he encouraged more of it in this week's third Test in Melbourne. Dhoni said he saw...
A 23-member contingent of Busan I'Park, a top-tier South Korean football club, arrived in the city Thursday to play a FIFA friendly against Bangladesh Premier League champions Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club at Bangabandhu National Stadium Saturday, reports UNB. The friendly...
The Trust Bank 13th National Senior and Junior Taekwondo competition will begin today (Friday) at the National Sports Council (NSC) Gymnasium with the participation of 24 districts, associations, clubs and universities across the country, reports BSS. Major General M Mahfuzur...
Port Elizabeth, Dec 25 (AP): Temba Bavuma is set to become the first black African batsman to play for South Africa when the second cricket test against the West Indies gets underway at St. George's Park on Boxing Day. With...
LONDON, Dec 25 (AFP): While professional footballers in the rest of Europe sleep off their Christmas hangovers, the Premier League ploughs on regardless Friday with a bumper schedule of traditional Boxing Day fixtures. For the first time in the 2014-15...
Classical Chess Zia loses to Pourkashiyan Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman of Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club Ltd lost to WGM Pourkashiyan Atousa of Iran in the 7th round match of the Al Ain Classical Chess Tournament held in Al Ain in UAE...
The country's overall gas production over the last one year has increased by about 154 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) to 2486 mmcfd in December last week from 2332 mmcfd in the first week of January 2014, reports UNB....
Southeast Bank Limited Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) at Head Office of the bank in the city. Shahid Hossain, Managing Director of Southeast Bank Limited and the President of HAAB Md....
The 27th edition of Industrial Trade Fair-2014 begins in Kolkata today (Friday) showcasing products of various countries, reports UNB. Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BNCCI) is hosting the fair with some 90 companies participating in it from Bangladesh...
Sonia H Moni The country's salt production is yet to gain momentum as all the producers are not engaged in the process until now, Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) officials said. "Farmers usually start producing salt in mid-November....
FE Report The initial public offering (IPO) subscription of Zaheen Spinning Limited (ZSL) will begin from Sunday (December 28) to raise a fund worth Tk 120 million from the public, officials said. The IPO subscription will remain open till January...
Chairman of India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry Abdul Matlub Ahmad on Thursday said country's all small and cottage industries have to be under the umbrella of National Association of Small and Cottage Industries Bangladesh (NASCIB). He also urged specific...
In his constituency of Varanasi Thursday, Prime Minister of India Norendra Modi said there is no question about the railways being privatised. "Those who are spreading lies that railways is being privatised...this is not our thought or intention," he said....
NEW DELHI, Dec 25 (PTI): India's foreign trade rose over 18 times since the launch of economic liberalisation programme in 1991 while the trade deficit widened by more than 22 times. The country's foreign trade (export and import) has increased...
BEIJING Thu Dec 25 (Reuters): China's economy is creating more than 13 million new jobs this year, the Xinhua news agency cited the labor ministry as saying on Thursday, outstripping the official target despite slower economic growth. China added 10.82...
TOKYO, Dec 25 (Reuters): The Japanese yen rose on Thursday in extremely thin trade because of the Christmas holiday, but the dollar remained not far from the week's highs hit on diverging monetary policy outlooks. Tokyo markets were open for...
CHICAGO, Dec 25 (Reuters): US consumers have not turned out in force for the final shopping days before Christmas, suggesting that traditional retailers will just meet industry sales forecasts in a season marked by deep discounts and growing encroachment from...
TOKYO, Dec 25 (AFP): The dollar lost more ground in thin Asian trade Thursday, after a rally powered by decade-high US economic growth figures. In Tokyo afternoon trade, the US unit bought 120.14 yen, weakening from 120.44 yen in New...
Noor E Hafza has recently been re-elected the chairman of Sonali Life Insurance Company Limited, said a statement. She was re-elected in the seventh meeting of the board of directors of the company. Noor E Hafza is also the director...
TOKYO, Dec 25 (AFP): Citigroup said Thursday it was selling its century-old Japanese retail banking operations to major lender Sumitomo Mitsui as part of an effort to shrink its consumer business globally. Financial details were not released, but Japanese news...
TOKYO, Dec 24 (Reuters): Japan aims to give a quick boost to lagging regional economies and low-income households with subsidies, merchandise vouchers and other schemes in a $29 billion stimulus package aimed at rejuvenating a two-year reflationary effort, a draft...
ANKARA, Dec 25 (AFP): Turkey's central bank on Wednesday kept its main interest rates unchanged, defying pressure from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a cut to stimulate flagging growth. The bank said in a statement after its latest monetary policy...
MUKONO, Uganda, Dec 25 (AFP): On a sprawling, lush cocoa plantation in Mukono outside the Ugandan capital Kampala, farmers have been sampling chocolate for the first time ever. "When we gave our farm manager the first product to taste his...
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